{"id":7600,"date":"2017-12-02T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2017-12-02T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T04:31:39","slug":"retail-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/retail-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took the family to Michael&#8217;s Crafts looking for fun crafts for a little party we will be hosting for Abigail.<br \/>\nIt took 45 minutes to travel each way. It&#8217;s usually 25 minutes but there was lots of traffic. Megan beat us there by 20 minutes, went to Panera Bread and had a terrible salad. Michael&#8217;s smelled like the inside of a <del datetime=\"2017-12-03T04:18:19+00:00\">chemical<\/del> <del datetime=\"2017-12-03T04:18:19+00:00\">incense<\/del> candle factory, several of their overhead flickering with nausia-inducing intensity, and the checkout line snaked to&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t see the end, it was like a 30 minute line. Apparently they were having a big sale. When Abigail arrived, Megan had already toured the store for our shopping list. All she found on our list was a headache. No, wait, that wasn&#8217;t on our list but that&#8217;s all she got :-(. I was much faster at shopping and got a headache in just the five minutes we were in the store for.<\/p>\n<p>So we fled and went to Toys R Us. We found a couple things for xmas but totally not what we were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>So we fled yet again and looked at some fish and birds at a nearby pet store to calm down.<\/p>\n<p>The retail experience so completely sucks. Amazon, take my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took the family to Michael&#8217;s Crafts looking for fun crafts for a little party we will be hosting for Abigail. It took 45 minutes to travel each way. It&#8217;s usually 25 minutes but there was lots of traffic. Megan beat us there by 20 minutes, went to Panera Bread and had a terrible salad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}